I too find this practice to be helpful and I have adopted it with modifications taking into account your observations. I alter the Title and the Short Title with my designation "DNCite" for Do Not Cite to alert me to the academy's objections to these titles.

Thanks a lot Beloved! Your suggestions as well as those of Francis and Keep Smiling are very helpful.

Thanks for those who provided feedback and an alternate way in modifying the title and short titles. I may do this myself.

I tend to open a lot of my stuff from the library (even when writing academic papers) and run the guides afterwards. For some reason instead of using the guides heavily, I've gotten more in the habit of going straight to the library, opening the books I want to research first, then use the guides more as a "fallback" to check to see what else I missed. Therefore, I'd see my tagging when in the library.

It is a great point though about not being able to see the tagging when using guides, etc., so I really like the idea of modifying the title and short titles to be crystal clear about this. Great pointer.

I found out my credit would be about $4.00, so certainly not enough to replace these commentaries. I'll just keep them in my library, flag them and tag them so I won't cite them in academic papers, and just use them for personal benefit.

Has anyone seen a journal or seminary statement on how to handle these? I am curious what the Academy's position is on this kind of thing, and couldn't find anything similar enough in the past to use as a paradigm.

Has anyone seen a journal or seminary statement on how to handle these? I am curious what the Academy's position is on this kind of thing, and couldn't find anything similar enough in the past to use as a paradigm.

My seminary hasn't weighed in, but I have tagged these "Do Not Cite" (and may also add it to the title of the commentary to ensure I don't), and I'm certainly not going to chance citing these in future academic writings for seminary or any other academic writing I'm involved in. The word is out about these, so using them could weaken my future academic writing. They'll still be great for personal use though, and I can just use other academic commentaries on these few Bible books for my academic writing.

From what I've examined just doing Logos searches, this is beyond just reusing ideas. O'Brien often cites his sources without using explicit quotes, but his method of paraphrasing them is to change a word or two here and remove a few others--the kind of stuff high school students get in trouble for. Illegitimate paraphrasing is shown on this page: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/1/ and O'Brien is clearly doing that.

I'd have trouble quoting him knowing that they aren't really his words--but neither are they the exact words of the source, so I can't quote them as the source, either. Here's an example:

Hellenistic literary devices, such as repetition, anaphora, inclusio, parallelism, rhetorical questions, direct address to the listeners, oratorical imperative, ‘hook words’, and the like were employed by the author as he composed his ‘word of exhortation’ to be read aloud in the congregation to which it was addressed.Peter T. O’Brien, The Letter to the Hebrews, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010), 24.

Personal desire for "?:" in titles is reminder to diligently research plus test and hold onto what is good. For paper writing, would ponder including many sources along with comments about similarities (plagiaristic workflow) and differences. Innovation is using existing items in different (creative) way(s).

I thought Logos wouldn't remove Peter T. O'Brien's commentary from our library (and I think they don't have the right to do that, since I bought the book). But now it seems they did and I wasn't aware of it...

Does any of you still have O'Brien's commentary on Hebrews (Pillar), Ephesians (Pillar) or Philippians (NIGTC)?

I thought Logos wouldn't remove Peter T. O'Brien's commentary from our library (and I think they don't have the right to do that, since I bought the book). But now it seems they did and I wasn't aware of it...

Does any of you still have O'Brien's commentary on Hebrews (Pillar), Ephesians (Pillar) or Philippians (NIGTC)?

Michael

I have the 2 Pillar volumes in my library, but curiously I can't find them by searching by his name, but only by searching for Pillar.

I thought Logos wouldn't remove Peter T. O'Brien's commentary from our library (and I think they don't have the right to do that, since I bought the book). But now it seems they did and I wasn't aware of it...

Does any of you still have O'Brien's commentary on Hebrews (Pillar), Ephesians (Pillar) or Philippians (NIGTC)?

Michael

I have the 2 Pillar volumes in my library, but curiously I can't find them by searching by his name, but only by searching for Pillar.

Did you by chance use the accent character instead of the apostrophe to type O'Brien? For me, filtering for author:o'brien will display the Pillar books (plus more by him and other authors named O'Brien). Unfortunately I never had the NIGTC book by him in my library.

I thought Logos wouldn't remove Peter T. O'Brien's commentary from our library (and I think they don't have the right to do that, since I bought the book). But now it seems they did and I wasn't aware of it...

Does any of you still have O'Brien's commentary on Hebrews (Pillar), Ephesians (Pillar) or Philippians (NIGTC)?

Michael

I have the 2 Pillar volumes in my library, but curiously I can't find them by searching by his name, but only by searching for Pillar.

Did you by chance use the accent character instead of the apostrophe to type O'Brien? For me, filtering for author:o'brien will display the Pillar books (plus more by him and other authors named O'Brien). Unfortunately I never had the NIGTC book by him in my library.

Works as you describe on a desktop. But doesn't on my tablet, which is my default method of using Faithlife.